I saw the “trickle down” happening in San Francisco first hand when I got off the Rapid Transit a stop early and emerged in the middle of a cardboard city.

The problem is that they will just shift who they cosy up to and who they bribe with “lobbying”. We all need politicians with the integrity to stand up to that.

For the audience listening at home I am doing a belm face.

Peanut butter and jelly sounds bizarre.

The fish part is true at least. It was called “fish jewish style” as you can fry it on Friday and it’ll keep til Sabbath. The chips were added to the fish supper later.

People keep telling me how much smarter the new models are, but they seem about the same as three years ago to me.

“As the Prince you’ve got to know when to hold ‘em. Know even to fold ‘em. Know when to walk away and know when to run.”

Poor Machiavelli too. Everyone goes on about how he faked his death and “dark triad” traits, and he was just some bloke taking the piss out of the government.

You write just one book about a labyrinthine bureacracy and people use your name to curse organisational dysfunction forever.

CDs are digital storage - source: every CD player from the 80s through the 90s proudly displayed a “digital” decal on its body.

Gamers who want to rent a PS6 will simply work a second job to afford it.

It was so hilariously obvious that the backlash about The Last Of Us part 2 was all about the horror of having to play as a woman instead of John McGun-Bro, rather than because those gamers hated the idea of being able to dive into prone to hide from enemies with improved AI who worked together to hunt you. If Joel had died heroicly at the end of the story destroying the cordeceps mothership with a forehead nuke he would have become so manly in death that the incels all spontaneously grew vaginas at the AMOG of it all.

I didn’t even pay for that one lol. Always a trash company.

This is Breath Of The Wild or Death Stranding. Both got me through COVID lockdown.

Except they don’t have to delete any of that as long as you hold ongoing software licenses with them, as that’s a legitimate interest. This is malicious compliance posing as “well they made us do it”, same as all the GDPR banners on the web.

The law says they can’t keep your PII after you stop being a customer, not anything about linking your email address to purchases for an entirely legitimate ongoing reason.

Wow, say what you want about Microsoft but the worst I had to do with my Xbox Live was repatriate it from a Russian hacker.

It’s always been like this. The pro reviewers get wined and dined by the publishers and consider themselves part of the industry (Dorito Pope!), so it’s not in their interest to rock the boat. The days of renegade and experimental reviews are long gone.

There’s a next gen Mario Kart with an amazing open world and even that feels kind of inessential after Mario Kart 8 nailed everything already. So I guess good luck to these devs!

Those maniacs finally did it!